Silencing His Critics: Double Dribbles

Two things I noticed from the Spurs-Celtics game on Sunday. First of all, the Celtics played better than San Antonio. San Antonio just happened to make dozens of shots with a huge level of difficulty. This was not Ginobili, Parker and Duncan either. George Hill and Roger Mason each made about 4 shots from over 30 feet with a man guarding them in the last quarter and a half of this game. I came out of this game thinking the Celts could win a 7 game series against the Spurs. Secondly, I commented in my last roundup that sitting the Big 3 was one of Popovich's ways of finding out who could fill the Stephen Jackson role of 4th playmaker behind the big 3. Well, they have found it in Roger Mason. He has gone from making clutch shots as an open spot up shooter to creating them and draining them. Very encouraging for San Antonio
The dirty so and so Bill Simmons stole my Russell Westbrook thunder in my trade column by saying he is not a point guard. Well, I knew that all along. Westbrook is a classic 2 guard in today's NBA. Why the hell is Earl Watson not playing 35 minutes next to Russ every game?! They are good compliments since Durant and Green can provide you good spot up shooting from the forward spots.

D. Bickel said...: Yeah, I've been swamped at work. I was working on putting together a nice little All-Star Weekend post, talking about the "G-E-I-C-O" competition, three point competition and dunk contst.... and include my thoughts on the Morrison trade (or more accurately, the Shannon Brown trade), the Marion-O'Neal trade (Jermaine, not Shaq... also, how many times has one player been traded for another player with the same last name as the previous player he was traded for? Can we get a stat boy for the blog?) as well as an All-Star break power rankings.; February 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Silencing His Critics